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title: 'Backend Software Engineer at New Lantern'
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# Backend Software Engineer at New Lantern

- **Company:** New Lantern
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-11-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/newlantern/5ac027d8-9ca8-4ec1-8794-a0f1d4a9f56f

## Job description

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

## THIS ROLE

As a backend software engineer working on our radiology platform, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining a reliable, high performance server application that enables our product, including receiving and processing radiology image data, running LLM inference tasks to assist users, and transmitting completed medical reports, as well as providing all of the standard services needed by a modern web application.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Take on end-to-end ownership for delivering a best-in-class radiology platform.
- Solve user problems by shipping reliable and efficient features and improvements, often using Python and Django.
- Collaborate with radiologists, clinical staff, and IT staff to discover requirements, build prototypes, and validate solutions.
- Improve application quality and reliability with pre-deployment automated testing, robust error handling, and graceful error recovery.
- Partner with frontend developers to ship new features and improve overall system performance and reliability.
- Participate in an on-call rotation or customer support engineering rotation.

## YOU HAVE

- 4+ years of progressive experience building and maintaining complex, high performance web applications running in cloud environments.
- Solid experience with Python and a Python web framework (ideally Django) as well as the supporting dev tools ecosystem.
- Well-practiced debugging and problem-solving skills, and a thorough understanding of the abstractions you typically build on top of.
- A product engineering mindset with a bias to talk to users frequently and ship iteratively.
- An end-to-end ownership mindset across design, implementation, testing, and monitoring.
- Experience using AI/LLM-based tools for developing software and solving software problems (e.g. Claude Code/Cursor/Codex/Copilot/OpenCode/etc.).

## NICE TO HAVES

- Experience measuring and optimizing the performance of web applications and their database access patterns.
- Experience building and maintaining reliable LLM- or ML-based products or systems, including evals, fine tuning, operations, and data engineering.
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure using Terraform or another infastructure-as-code tool.
- Experience deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes or another container orchestration system.
- Experience with data modeling (and grappling with the consequences of poor data modeling decisions).
- Experience building and operating production data processing pipelines.
- Deep experience in the Python ecosystem (e.g. package maintainer/contributor, etc.)
- Systems programming & administration experience (networking, linux/POSIX, concurrency, filesystems, memory management, etc.)
- Full-stack experience, ideally with Typescript/React.
- Familiarity with radiology, medical imaging, or related fields.

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

## About New Lantern

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: An AI-native, cloud-based unified radiology platform that replaces legacy PACS, worklist, viewer, and reporting systems with a single workspace powered by the Curie AI assistant.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Shiva Suri (CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Healthcare information technology (radiology)
- Target customers: Radiologists, radiology practices, hospitals, and imaging centers (B2B)
- Mission or purpose: To free radiologists from fragmented, slow software so they can focus on diagnosing patients – “Keep your eyes on the images. Let AI do the rest.”

## Products & Services
- **Intelligent Worklist**: Cloud-native worklist that prioritizes cases by STAT, modality, and assignment; precaches the next study for sub-second loading.
- **Curie AI Reporting**: Generative AI that pre-drafts up to 75% of a radiology report in the radiologist’s own style, learns from edits, and handles structured data, laterality, and prior comparisons.
- **Ultra-fast Cloud Viewer**: Sub-second image loading with automatic hanging protocols, MPR, and support for all modalities including mammography (2D/3D tomosynthesis) and PET/CT.
- **Mammography Viewer Mode** (Aug 2025): Specialized for breast imaging with CAD overlay, multi-modality comparison, and AI-assisted annotation.
- **PET/CT Viewer Mode** (Aug 2025): Fused imaging with SUV calculations, lesion tracking, and synchronized multiplanar reconstruction.
- **Curie Radiology Speech Model** (Mar 2026): Custom speech-to-text model built for medical dictation, handling terminology and short phrases better than general-purpose engines.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $19M (Series A)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Benchmark (lead), Afore Capital, Anthology Fund, Neo, SV Angel, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Saji Wickramasekara, Jay Kreps, Gokul Rajaram
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded to cover all imaging modalities with mammography and PET/CT viewer modes; new custom speech model; actively hiring across engineering, product, and go-to-market; backed by top-tier VC with strong enterprise software track record.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Replaces multiple legacy systems (PACS, worklist, reporting) with one cloud workspace – no bolt-on integrations.
- **Cloud-native**: No installs, no VPN, no on-site servers; sub-second precaching; go-live in days.
- **Curie AI**: Learns each radiologist’s reporting style and improves over time; pre-drafts structured reports to drastically reduce dictation effort.
- **Built by a multidisciplinary team**: Silicon Valley engineers, AI researchers, and practicing radiologists collaborate directly, ensuring product-market fit.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform to more radiology practices across the U.S. and expand into specialized imaging workflows.
- Continue building Curie AI capabilities (speech, automation, learning) to further reduce radiologist burnout and turnaround times.
- Grow the engineering and go-to-market teams while maintaining a tight feedback loop with real users.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: In-person, five days a week in Jackson Square, San Francisco. Described as “Cursor for radiology” – small teams, high autonomy, and daily direct interaction with radiologists.
- **Impact**: Work reaches real patients; every engineer owns real product surface area and ships daily.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary + meaningful equity, full medical/dental/vision, daily lunch and dinner, stocked kitchen.
- **Unique hiring path – Residency Program**: Up to 10 early-career engineers (0–2 years) can join a 4-week paid residency ($12K) paired with an attending engineer; top performers get full-time offers.
- **Benefits**: Skip traditional interview loops if you can demonstrate shipped work.

## Sources
1. [newlantern.ai](https://newlantern.ai/)
2. [newlantern.ai/careers](https://newlantern.ai/careers)
3. [newlantern.ai/about-us](https://newlantern.ai/about-us)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/new-lantern)
5. [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250805492993/en/) (Series A announcement via Business Wire)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/newlantern)

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